Crossword-Solution: INFIBULATION
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| Infibulation | n. | The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock. |
| Infibulation | n. | The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with INFIBULATION (5)
Infibulation of the male and female external genital organs for the prevention of sexual congress is a very ancient custom.
Infibulation by a ring in the prepuce was used to prevent premature copulation, and was in time to be removed, but in some cases its function was the preservation of perpetual chastity.
Rhodius mentions the usage of infibulation in antiquity, and Fabricius d'Aquapendente remarks that infibulation was usually practiced in females for the preservation of chastity.
During the Middle Ages, in place of infibulation, chastity-girdles were used, and in the Italian girdles, such as the one exhibited in the Musee Cluny in Paris, both the anus and vulva were protected by a steel covering perforated for the evacuations.
Buffon and Brown mention infibulation in Abyssinia, the parts being separated by a bistoury at the time of marriage.